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Explore the latest from the College of Engineering — innovative research, student successes, and industry collaborations — revealing how Oregon State engineers are building a better world.
Megan Thomas wears a graduation cap and stole and stands outdoors leaning against a large black Oregon State University sign.

Sept. 10, 2026

How Megan Thomas used Oregon State’s MEng program to launch a career at Apple

A rear view of a person seated in a heavy equipment simulator, facing a large screen that displays a virtual construction site.

Sept. 9, 2026

Safer by simulation

Guillaume Mignot stands outside beside a large instrument filled with pipes, cables, valves, and metal components.

Aug. 31, 2026

More impact per square foot

A person wearing protective gear is viewed through the interior of semiconductor manufacturing equipment in purple and blue light.

Aug. 27, 2026

High-performance computing and AI accelerate semiconductor innovation in Oregon

A close-up view of a semiconductor wafer with a repeating grid pattern of microelectronic structures in iridescent colors.

Aug. 20, 2026

Gift establishes Analog Devices Barrie Gilbert Chair in Microelectronics

A person points to a projected image of the Ringelmann scale, showing a progression of shaded grids, from clear to opaque.

Aug. 17, 2026

Four years of real problems, real solutions: The AI master’s capstone opens its next round

Ted Brekken.

Aug. 14, 2026

Ted Brekken appointed Director of the Pacific Marine Energy Center

Asumi Suzuki.

Aug. 14, 2026

A computer science degree transformed tech curiosity into a career

A small wooden hut that is on fire.

Aug. 14, 2026

Taller structures produce more blaze-spreading embers, OSU research suggests

Saurabh Bagchi wears a blue suit and stands in front of a whiteboard with a hand-drawn illustration of workflow on the board behind him.

Aug. 11, 2026

Meet Saurabh Bagchi, the next head of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

A forest fire burns on a hillside, with smoke surrounding it.

July 28, 2026

Xue Jin wins NSF CAREER award to study post-wildfire impacts on water treatment

Kyla Daskalos, wearing a red shirt, looks at a computer screen.

July 23, 2026

Oregon State’s ORTSOC is preparing students for a rapidly evolving cybersecurity threat landscape

A person wears a clean-room suit with hair covering, gloves, and boot covers and stands inside a large cylindrical chamber lined with metallic panels and equipment.

July 23, 2026

Chasing fusion's hardest problem on the nation's fastest university supercomputer

Color-coded map of the United States indicating annual rainfall.

July 23, 2026

PRISM Group eyes first major test of OSU’s new NVIDIA supercomputer

Venkata Vinay Doddapaneni, Chih-hung Chang, and Alvin Chang stand in a lab in Johnson Hall wearing lab coats and protective eyeglasses.

July 22, 2026

Turning moon trash into mission-critical materials

Kathryn Newhart and Perry Wilson wear eye protection and stand next to a workbench in a lab and adjust a device with two intersecting pipes.

July 20, 2026

NSF CAREER award honors Kathryn Newhart for research on AI and water treatment systems

Three students soldering a circuit board.

July 14, 2026

Oregon team of nearly 100 partners awarded NSF Regional Innovation Engine Award, set up to receive up to $160 million to grow state’s semiconductor industry

Light shining through the misty trees of the McDonald-Dunn Research Forest.

July 10, 2026

Geomatics students uncover evidence of a 19th century land-surveying system

Dylan Goff wears a hard hat and sits in front of a computer and monitoring equipment in the Emmerson Lab, a large timber engineering facility.

July 9, 2026

Structural engineering student Dylan Goff contributes to new mass timber design

A cluster of green grapes hangs on a vine in the sunlight with blurred green vegetation in the background.

July 8, 2026

Growing intelligence: How hybrid AI models are transforming agricultural decision-making

MECOP students in a conference room with the Boeing logo on the wall behind them and form the letters OSU with their arms.

June 24, 2026

Built to last: How Boeing's enduring partnership with Oregon State Engineering shapes the next generation of innovators

Arunavo Dey, Xulu Chu, Wenqian Dong, and Changqing Li pose in front of a rack of computer servers.

June 17, 2026

Wenqian Dong is teaching supercomputers to think differently

Sandhya Saisubramanian stands in a lab with windows behind her and workbenches and hardware in the background.

June 16, 2026

Sandhya Saisubramanian receives NSF CAREER award

Alexander Roller wears a grey Oregon State Beavers t-shirt and stands in a workspace with sunlight illuminating his face and the background in dark shadow.

June 12, 2026

Building robots that matter